A former New Jersey corrections officer has been sentenced to five years in state prison for attacking an inmate in 2017, officials said. Cortlen S. Flax, 37, of Woodbury, received a five-year ...

A corrections officer in South Jersey who ruptured an inmate's ear in an assault is to serve the next five years in state prison.

A Harris County judge has been reprimanded for her handling of death row inmate Ronald Haskell's post-conviction case that she was removed from following allegations that she acted favorably toward ...

A federal judge has rejected a plea from an Alabama Death Row inmate, setting him up to be executed by nitrogen gas later this month for his conviction for a harrowing 1993 kidnapping and murder.

An Arkansas death row inmate on Friday requested a competency evaluation to determine if he can waive his remaining appeals before shifting gears and telling a federal judge he wants to fire his ...

Erie County Executive Brenton Davis' Community Works Program is causing a dispute with county judges and the district attorney. Judges and the DA argue the program improperly lets inmates out for work ...